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Posts from March 2007

Paperless!

We have a large Lanier multi-function copier in our office, that, unbeknownst to me, does image to PDF. Since my office is moving in the next 2 weeks, I took the opportunity to sort through all of the paper in my office, hanging around for reference (primarily from my predecessor on the Windows/Telecom admin side) [...]


Is Yahoo! making a comeback?

Yahoo mail has grown on me; despite the ads, the interface is nice and I have a lot of sources that use that email address.
Yahoo! messenger is still my IM of choice.
Yahoo! to go looks like a nice application to distill the best of Yahoo! into a phone interface.
I might set my search default to [...]


New layouts

If you’re reading this, I’m sure you’ve noticed that things have moved around. The texty, networking, journaly blog is now at http://www.kataan.org/blog, and the main page is dedicated to my photo works. I may end up getting a new domain for one of them, but for the time being I’m sharing.
The only problem is that [...]


DST

Who thought that changing the times that Daylight Saving Time (note the correct spelling) was a good thing? I have an outsourced Exchange environment, 300 laptops and desktops PC running Windows XP, and 40 servers running Linux and Windows server 2003 that I’m in the process of patching.
I wonder if anyone can do the [...]


Still can’t find a template!

There are literally hundreds of Wordpress templates out there. I’ve got close to a hundred installed into my site already.
Widgets are great - they’re pre-made sidebar items that save me from having to hand-hack sidebar table entries. Most of my hesitation to switch templates was because I’d customized a template so much that it would [...]